Improvement in picture-mounts



JOHN A. VAN DRELZEN, or PEORIA, ILLINOIS.

IMPROVEMENT IN PICTUREMOUNTS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No- 161,303, dated March23, 1875 application filed February 18, 1875.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN A. VAN DREL- ZEN, of the city of Peoria, in thecounty of Peoria and State of Illinois, have invented an Improvement inMounting Pictures; and do hereby declare that the following is a full,clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to the annexeddrawings, making a part of this specification, in which like letters ofreference refer to like parts, and in Which- Figure 1 represents aperspective view; Fig. 2, a cross-section.

This invention relates to that class of pieture'mounts which arecomposed of paper, card-board, thin metal, or similar light material, asa back or mount for pictures, prints," or similar subjects, asphotographs, ferrot-ypes, 830., or specimens of goods, as velvets,cloths, printed goods, &c.

The object of this invention is to afford a protection to the objectdesired to be mounted, to prevent it from being rumpled or broken, andprevent the edges of the same from cutting the imposed mat, or forcingthe latter up by means of its sharp edges, and so defacing the face ofthe mat. To do this I provide a card (or metal sheet) larger than theobject to be mounted, in which I sink a recess of more or less depth,according to requirements, in which said object or picture may lie flushwith the upper surface or margin of the card. To and on one side of thismargin is gummed or pasted a flexible mat, or a mat with a flexiblemargin, through the opening in which the picture may be observed, havingits under surface, facing the recessed back or card, covered with someadhesive substance, by which the same may be fastened, when re quired,to the card and picture, so inclosing the picture in the recess, butaffording it a proper display. I use the countersunk card and matseparate, or not joined to each other but the preferable mode is theattachment to gether.

In the case of display-mounts or picturebackings, where several picturesare desired to be displayed, several countersunk recesses may be made ina card, A, one mat, with corresponding picture-openings, covering thewhole.

Inthe drawings, A represents the mount or card, or metal backing 5 a,the countersunk recess; B, the picture or similar object; O, the mat.

What I claim as my invention is- In combination with a mat, 0, having anopening through which the picture is seen, and its under surface coveredwith an adhesive substance, a backing, A, or mount composed of card orother suitable material, having a countersunk shallow recess, a, toreceive a picture or similar object, substantially as and for thepurposes described.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing picture-mount, I have hereuntoset my hand this 13th day of February, 1875.

JOHN A. VAN DRELZEN.

Witnesses:

JAMES M. MORSE, G. H. KETTELLE.

